Have you ever thought that Putin and Xi might be fellow travellers? Along with the Iranian leadership?
Everyone thought Moscow had come in from the cold, when they annexed Crimea, started a war in Eastern Ukraine, and started interfering in Western democratic systems, build ip their military - particularly in terms of nuclear capability,, and returning to almost Cold War levels of aircraft and submarine activity in the Atlantic? Not forgetting the use of radiological agents and chemical weapons on British soil,